Short cuts make long delays.
Life is short, but art lives forever.
All in all, I wouldn't call it a bad outing. It was a short outing.
We were at the stage where in a very short period of time, one of the world's biggest banks would have to shut the door and switch off the electricity.
For the theatre one needs long arms. . . an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.
Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.
Happiness has a very short half-life.
A whole roomful of Jews is like a charged battery. The vitality sparks seem to fly, and frequently the result is a short circuit.
You're nothing short of my everything.
Cease-fire is important, but it can last only for a very, very, very short time.
And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.
Truth is not something you can appropriate easily and quickly. You certainly cannot sleep or dream yourself to the truth. No, you must be tried, do battle, and suffer if you are to acquire the truth for yourself. It is a sheer illusion to think that in relation to the truth there is an abridgement, a short cut that dispenses with the necessity for struggling for it.
I'd been through so much, falling short again and again, and only recently had found a place where who I was, right now, was enough.
Take the back door," she said. "Claire, you and your strang friend-" "Eve," they both said simultaneously, and Eve held out her fst for a bump. "Or, you could call me Eve the Great, Mistress of All She Surveys. Eve for short.
Life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest.
Old books, old wine, old Nankin blue;- All things, in short, to which belong The charm, the grace that Time makes strong, All these I prize, but (entre nous) Old friends are best!
Words fall short sometimes.
Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition.
I always thought the women of my age group got short shrift because the women's liberation movement came slightly after. You look at the yearbooks and you see the future homemakers of America - hurray for that - but you also see them in the engineers club. You see minority kids as student body presidents at a time when everyone was supposed to be terminally racist. Yearbooks are genres; they're also folk art, folk documentation.
Life is too short for reading inferior books.